After 32 days in the NICU at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto, our little angels are home with mommy and daddy today. We are so excited to bring them home and are so thankful for having three healthy babies that have all fought their own battles to progress from tiny premature babies to self-sufficient beings. We are thankful to all the staff at Mount Sinai Hospital for everything they’ve done for them over the last month, as well as to all our family and friends that have supported us through this adventure – we couldn’t have done it without you!
Geeta and I can now offically join the new-parents club with having experienced our first sleepless night…..getting up to feed, change, burp, and comfort the babies every three hours is quite the feat considering that there are only two of us and three of them! We’ve tried to stagger their feeding schedules about 15-30 mins apart so that we can get through all of them without making one wait his/her turn. Our nanny, Sarah, has also started now and we are relieved that she will be around to help out. The next 3 -4 months will be quite the difficult ones because these are the months where they don’t sleep through the night. Geeta and I will be quite the zombies for some time so please bear with us if you don’t hear from us for a while!
Many of you have asked if you could come over and visit them…..Geeta and I can’t wait to have guests however given that Kailen, Jaiden, and Ariya are preemies we are under strict instructions from the hospital to limit visitors in the short term. Until April 10th (their original due date) we will be holding off on any visitors and thereafter we would be happy to have guests come over and meet the little ones (assuming you have no symptoms of illness :) ). We will be limiting visitation from children (i.e. kids under 10 years of age) until after June 10th when our little guys have gotten their vaccinations and their lungs have developed further. Premature children are highly susceptible to lung infections and more specifically a virus called RSV (a virus that is more prominent than H1N1 for small children at present and masks itself as a minor cold in adults and especially young children). Given their susceptibility to illness, we will have to be very careful for a few months so we hope you’ll understand if we’re being super-paranoid ;)
Some pictures and videos from the last couple of days and their trip home from the hospital.
Geeta and I can now offically join the new-parents club with having experienced our first sleepless night…..getting up to feed, change, burp, and comfort the babies every three hours is quite the feat considering that there are only two of us and three of them! We’ve tried to stagger their feeding schedules about 15-30 mins apart so that we can get through all of them without making one wait his/her turn. Our nanny, Sarah, has also started now and we are relieved that she will be around to help out. The next 3 -4 months will be quite the difficult ones because these are the months where they don’t sleep through the night. Geeta and I will be quite the zombies for some time so please bear with us if you don’t hear from us for a while!
Many of you have asked if you could come over and visit them…..Geeta and I can’t wait to have guests however given that Kailen, Jaiden, and Ariya are preemies we are under strict instructions from the hospital to limit visitors in the short term. Until April 10th (their original due date) we will be holding off on any visitors and thereafter we would be happy to have guests come over and meet the little ones (assuming you have no symptoms of illness :) ). We will be limiting visitation from children (i.e. kids under 10 years of age) until after June 10th when our little guys have gotten their vaccinations and their lungs have developed further. Premature children are highly susceptible to lung infections and more specifically a virus called RSV (a virus that is more prominent than H1N1 for small children at present and masks itself as a minor cold in adults and especially young children). Given their susceptibility to illness, we will have to be very careful for a few months so we hope you’ll understand if we’re being super-paranoid ;)
Some pictures and videos from the last couple of days and their trip home from the hospital.
Congratulations on such a great milestone! Our best wishes,
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Welcome home!!! They look so sweet and in their rightful places next to one another :)
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